Impactul gesturilor simbolice asupra achiziției simultane a două limbi
The impact of symbolic sign language on bilingual simultaneous language acquisition

Summary/Abstract: Driven by the desire to communicate with their children way before the onset of the verbal language stage, parents from socially and culturally different backgrounds have resorted to the use of the infant sign-language programs. Such programs, used for typically developed children in the absence of an auditory deficit, have fluorished in the later years in The United States, being endorsed by early childhood education researchers, as well as certain government institutions interested in promoting active methods of language development. Based on these considerations, along with personal empirical results, the present study’s main goal was the research of the impact of symbolic gestures on the simultaneous bilingual language acquisition for a group of children from the middle class population in The United States of America, highlighting the importance of considering children’s linguistic developmental trajectories on a developmental continuum, marked by periods of accelerated language acquisition, as well as periods of latency.

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